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Requesting a Sample

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ID: 0470 Intermediate
Our Canadian friend Peter gets deeper into his Chinese business adventure as he decides on a product and requests a sample. For those of you dying to know how to request a variety sample set of hammers in Mandarin, this is the podcast you’ve been waiting for. Listen and learn.
Thu Mar 29 2007 | Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
顺利 shùnlì smoothly
汇报 huìbào to report
报价 bàojià quote
讨论 tǎolùn discussion
是李先生吗？我是Peter.
shì Lǐ xiānsheng ma ？wǒ shì Peter .
Is this Mr. Li? This is Peter.
哎，我是。你好。还在中国吗？最近过得怎样？
āi ，wǒ shì 。nǐhǎo 。hái zài Zhōngguó ma ？zuìjìn guò de zěnyàng ？
Hey ,that’s me. Hello. Are you still in China? How are things recently?
挺好的，事情也办得很顺利。我跟你说啊，我把我们上次谈过的情况向公司汇报过了。我们公司也对你们的报价进行了讨论，觉得可以接受。
tǐng hǎo de ，shìqing yě bàn de hěn shùnlì 。wǒ gēn nǐ shuō a ，wǒ bǎ wǒmen shàngcì tán guo de qíngkuàng xiàng gōngsī huìbào guo le 。wǒmen gōngsī yě duì nǐmen de bàojià jìnxíng le tǎolùn ，juéde kěyǐ jiēshòu 。
Pretty good, and things have been going very smoothly. I have to tell you, I’ve reported to the company the matters we discussed last time. Our company also had a discussion about your quote, and felt that it was acceptable.
那真是太好了。我就说嘛，我们产品的性价比最好了。
nà zhēnshì tài hǎo le 。wǒ jiù shuō ma ，wǒmen chǎnpǐn de xìngjiàbǐ zuìhǎo le 。
That’s really great. Didn’t I say our products are the best value for the money?
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